Ingemar Stenmark

2023 - 3 - 11

Mikaela Shiffrin

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Mikaela Shiffrin Breaks Ingemar Stenmark's World Cup Record With ... (The New York Times)

Shiffrin has now won 87 World Cup races, passing Ingemar Stenmark's record that stood for 34 years. Her ski racing career has been a master class in evading ...

When finished, with a towel around her neck, she headed for the exit. But in the aftermath of those Games, Shiffrin rallied to [win the 2022 World Cup overall title](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/17/sports/skiing/shiffrin-world-cup-olympics.html) and the 2023 season saw her swiftly — almost astonishingly — [accelerate toward](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/24/sports/skiing/shiffrin-vonn-world-cup.html) the career World Cup win record and a fifth World Cup overall title. Returning to Denver, Mikaela and Eileen and other family members were at Jeff’s bedside in the hours before While preparing for the first race without her mother, Mikaela took a casual run next to a training course in Sweden and fell hard, crashing into the protective netting at the trail’s edge. “These top-level coaches would tell me that Mikaela was just ripping up a racecourse,” Jeff Shiffrin said in 2013 as he sat in his Colorado home. When Eileen rejoined the coaching staff, Mikaela won her next two races and was on the podium for seven of the season’s final 10 events. “People who fall generally do it a lot because they take too many risks and don’t have the technical skills to get out of trouble they get into.” Her idea of a perfect day is 10 (or 15) uninterrupted training runs through a racecourse. He added: “The one thing Mikaela has in excess is technical skills. Then there is Shiffrin, whose only serious injury has been a torn medial collateral ligament in a knee in 2015 that cost her two months of racing. One day at the gym last fall, as a family took snapshots next to Shiffrin’s image, she walked past unobserved. If a bone-breaking, high-speed crash does not wreck a promising career, then chronic injuries, especially to the lower back and knees, typically persist because of the enormous forces racers absorb to execute precise turns at 60 to 80 miles per hour.

Mikaela Shiffrin breaks Ingemar Stenmark's record for most World ... (The Washington Post)

Mikaela Shiffin now has 87 World Cup wins after Saturday's victory, passing Ingemar Stenmark for the most by any Alpine skier.

“I will, of course, watch on TV,” Stenmark said, adding that “it would be a little bit strange for me to go to Are to celebrate Shiffrin when we have the Swedish girls also. She clinched last weekend her fifth World Cup overall title, which annually goes to the skier with the most points over the course of the season. seeing my brother and (sister-in-law) Kristi and my mom (and coach, Eileen) in the finish today, that’s what makes it memorable.” She has good physical strength, she has a good technique, strong head. And I’m also impressed that she can ski good both in slalom and in super-G and downhill also. [per the Associated Press](https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2023/03/11/mikaela-shiffrin-ingemar-stenmark-skiing-record/d2bb3aba-bff5-11ed-9350-7c5fccd598ad_story.html?itid=lk_inline_manual_5).

Mikaela Shiffrin surpasses Ingemar Stenmark wins record to ... (Eurosport.com)

Mikaela Shiffrin surpassed Ingemar Stenmark's record for most Alpine skiing World Cup wins with her 13th victory of the season.

“The best feeling is to ski on the second run because you have a lead and you have to be smart. I just want to say thank you for that.” “My brother and sister-in-law are here and I didn’t know they were coming. “It’s pretty hard to comprehend,” said Shiffrin. Åre I just wanted to be fast too and ski the second run like its own race.

Mikaela Shiffrin sets World Cup skiing record with 87th win (WATN - Local 24)

The awards ceremony was memorable in another way, too: Shiffrin got a heartwarming surprise visit.

Mikaela Shiffrin Breaks Ingemar Stenmark's Alpine Skiing Record for ... (PEOPLE.com)

Mikaela Shriffin is now the most winning World Cup alpine skier in history, breaking Ingemar Stenmark's previously held record 86 victories.

"The best feeling is to ski on the second run because you have a lead, and you have to be smart," she continued. "I think it's the combination of everything that makes her so good. I didn't know they were coming, so that makes it so special." But somehow I feel something in my heartbeat," Shiffrin said, per AP. On breaking the record, Shiffrin said after her race that it was "pretty hard to comprehend. seeing my brother and [sister-in-law] Kristi and my mom [and coach, Eileen] in the finish today, that's what makes it memorable."

Mikaela Shiffrin's road to the World Cup ski racing record (ESPN)

Mikaela Shiffrin became the greatest ski racer of all the time after breaking Ingemar Stenmark's win record. Here's why her accomplishment seemed inevitable ...

I was thinking about the course ahead and the skiing I wanted to do and that I'm going to have to be smart and I'm going to have to be tough and I'm going to have to be patient." "But her win-to-podium ratio is even cooler because of her consistency in not just getting on the podium, but when she gets there, in being number one." And it's so hard to explain to people who don't know the sport." She doesn't get herself into hot water when she's pushing in training and trying to find the technical and tactical limits or the limits of her equipment. "I think what's allowed Mikaela to do this is the pureness of her desire to not only be the best in the world but be the best version of herself every time she goes out," says Paul Kristofic, head alpine coach for U.S. "We'd hear that Mikaela was the youngest to do something or was on pace to do something else, but it never went deeper," Pech says. Each year, including this one, she sets her sights not on wins, but on consistency, on winning the overall, GS and slalom globes -- all of which she already locked up this season. "She is determined, studious and reflective in a way that everything she does on or off the hill is about holding herself accountable. And it's not just that Shiffrin is now, by the numbers, the greatest alpine skier in history. In a sport where the word "consistency" is rarely spoken, Shiffrin has made it her standard. Just 27, Shiffrin "reset" Stenmark's record -- a term she prefers over "broke" -- in 1,170 fewer days than it took the now 66-year-old to reach his 86th World Cup win in 1989. One month later, she locked up her fifth overall World Cup title, eclipsing Vonn for the second-most overall titles in history.

American skier Mikaela Shiffrin sets World Cup record with 87th ... (WTOP)

ARE, Sweden (AP) — American skier Mikaela Shiffrin sets World Cup record with 87th career win, surpassing Swedish great Ingemar Stenmark.